ping is a method of measuring latency or the time it takes to send and receive a
packet of data between two devices such as computers on a network a simple
analogy would be to pretend that the two computers are two people Dick and Jane
ping would be the amount of time it takes dick to say something to Jane and
receive a response the lower the Ping time or latency between Dick and Jane
the more effectively they can communicate as ping times increase the
time intervals between sending and receiving messages will continue to
increase until the delays are so long that their communication stops making
sense altogether low ping times are extremely important in scenarios where
the timely delivery of information is more important than the quantity of
information that can be delivered in an online game where two players are
competing against each other for example the game data things like player models
maps and textures is stored on the individual PC or console of each
competitor in order to play against each other the only information that needs to
be transferred back and forth between the players is simple stuff like the
location bullet trajectory and updates that are being made to objects on the
map such as buildings that have been damaged or destroyed in contrast to
applications like games services like Netflix are not very dependent on low
ping times in these cases bandwidth or the raw amount of data that can be
delivered per second is more important to the quality of the experience the
reason for this is that data is only being sent one way and large buffers or
chunks of the movie that are pre-downloaded on the Fly can mask many
issues that would be caused by an inconsistent or not very low latency
connection so in short you can think of ping like the WhatsApp or Twitter of
network communication compact messages that are optimized for quick
communication and coordination between devices in real time another major
contributor to your online experience is Jitter but that's a topic for another
video hopefully we'll be able to add a link to it at some point here speaking
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